Let priest-led slaves cease to
proclaim
that man
Inherits vice and misery, when Force
And Falsehood hang even o'er the cradled babe
Stifling with rudest grasp all natural good.
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Ye sons of boastful wisdom, famed of yore,
Whose feet unwearied wander'd many a shore,
From nature's wonders to withdraw the veil,
Had you with me unfurl'd the daring sail,
Had view'd the
wondrous
scenes mine eyes survey'd,
What seeming miracles the deep display'd,
What secret virtues various nature show'd,
Oh!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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cerca de
nosotros
una mesa con cuatro atractivos jo?
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He
drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the
instructions of the curate, and
insisted
that he should labour out of
doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the
farm.
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will think upon Bahab and Babylon, By Babylon meant the city of this world as there one holy city,
Jerusalem
one unholy, Babylon: all the unholy belong to Babylon, even as all the holy to Jerusalem.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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The peculiarity of the concept of vAy], or matter, is that we are here using a concept or speaking of a principle which, by its meaning, refers to
something
which is not a concept or a principle.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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But why he said so strange a thing
No Warder dared to ask:
For he to whom a
watcher’s
doom
Is given as his task,
Must set a lock upon his lips,
And make his face a mask.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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"This volume forms the first of a
Classical
Series projected by the
Manchester University, who are to be congratulated on having begun
with a book so original and full of interest.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Atque in se sua per
vestigia
volvitur annus.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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In the face of potentially infinite forms of experience and representation for every object of observation, how
Steady Admiration in an
Expanding
Present 205
can one believe in the existence of an ultimate object of experience, identical with itself?
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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The
roadside
flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Of the whole wide atmosphere it does not
desire a single finger-breadth more than what is
necessary
for its sails
to turn round in.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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It
is
curiously
limiting, too.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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On Friday, October 15th, he was
arraigned
at the bar of
the Old Bailey, to receive his former sentence; and on Tuesday, the second of the next month, Novem ber, 1736, was executed with two other convicts, at Tyburn.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Ovid
assigns two sorts of offence that had brought
the
punishment
upon him, his poem and his
error, -- carmen et error.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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’
To Flory ’s
surprise
the doctor made such a violent gesture of anger that he spilled most of
his beer.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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A monk asked: "Between Buddha and
sentient
beings, who is the host and who is the guest?
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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" Phalaris, too, burnt in the bull the
limbs of the cruel Perillus; the unhappy
inventor
was the first to make
proof of his work.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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That is the
terrible
heresy of the Chinese Communists.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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They are reprinted here for good
for good custom, a custom out of Tuscany and of Provence ; and
thirdly, for convenience, seeing their small- ness of bulk ; and for good memory,
seeing that they recall certain evenings and meetings of two years gone, dull enough at the time, but rather
pleasant
to look back upon.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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62 At the place where we meet him,
he makes
sentient
beings speak the truth and makes nonsentient beings63
speak the truth, and we listen with body and listen with mind.
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Shobogenzo |
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et de la
nullite?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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et de la
nullite?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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T o contact the master, hidden
somewhere
in the earth beneath the
vast slack body of Yawn, requires much preparation.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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11
La Fraisne
A
Villonaud
: Mesmerism
.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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This land is ours by right of birth,
This land is ours by right of toil;
We helped to turn its virgin earth,
Our sweat is in its
fruitful
soil.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Goodwin, who had committed the same kind of crime,
escaped with incapacitation; and, as exclusion from publick trust is a
punishment which the power of government can commonly inflict, without
the help of a
particular
law, it required no great interest to exempt
Milton from a censure little more than verbal.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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'"
Fraser, _The Golden Bough_, London,
Macmillan
& Co.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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) only
dealt with by statute in this country as recently as
the
Victorian
era.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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”
“There were
misunderstandings
between them, Emma; he said so expressly.
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Austen - Emma |
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Ill
When George turned his attention to the writing of poetry in the
later
eighties
of the century, the great lyric impulse in German
poetry coming from Goethe had reached its end, stung to death
by the irony of Heine.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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" Hastika-ksya also states: "nothing exists whose
generation
or birth is possible.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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[Published by Rossetti, "Complete
Poetical
Works of P.
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Shelley copy |
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The sun alone is heroic right to the moment of setting and remains
generous
until it goes down.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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” [The italicized sentences are
evidently
current sayings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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-- What is the
unfailing
means of acquiring happiness Answer: virtue.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Blandrord led the
conversation
to Mrs.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Temple turned back to Stephen and asked:
--Do you believe in the law of
heredity?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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He laughs like a hyena, and every respectable father of a family looks on the fellow as a god-forsaken monster ; but the immortals must think him worth
something
to have given him such mag nificent grinders in his ugly mouth, and to have preserved him mercifully for fifty years — for that is about the rascal's age.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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he must be unbalanced,"--
"There was
something
he said that I might have challenged.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Man rising to the doom that shall not err,--
Which hath most dread: the arouse of all or each;
All
kindreds
of all nations of all speech,
Or one by one of _him_ and _him_ and _her_?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I wish for
nothing more than to make a
leisurely
pilgrimage through my native
country; to sit and muse on those once hard-contended fields, where
Caledonia, rejoicing, saw her bloody lion borne through broken ranks
to victory and fame; and, catching the inspiration, to pour the
deathless names in song.
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Robert Forst |
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" Instead, we have to begin from the under standing that our reading
confesses
our being within and against lan
guage.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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The first Reichstag of 1920 was already clearly
dominated
by antidemocratic forces.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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4 According to the Calendar of the O'Clerys, the first
denomination
of our saint was Caylan, and this is said to have been his proper name.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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However political crises might suggest to the Imperator the demolition of the strong pillars of Hellenism in the west and in Egypt, Massilia and Alexandria were neither
destroyed
nor denationalized.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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With Foch, he signed the WWI
armistice
on behalf of the Allies.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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When Rhea Silvia,
princess
and virgin, came down to the Tiber
Just to fetch water, a god seized her and that is the way
Mars begat himself sons, a pair of twins whom a she wolf
Suckled.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ide," it
is not impossible that the poems now
republished
in this collection may
be by the author of "The Raven.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Coleridge
annotated his friend's copy of The
Anatomy.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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What nobody wanted to know became
unambiguously
evident.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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" Carr argues that the
Internet
has rewired our brains so that "deep reading" is passe?
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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'25 In an attempt to tear persons away from the
sensuous
and to direct their gaze to the stars, suggests Hegel, the reflective philosophies of subjectivity reaffirm what thought had put asunder and restore the feeling of essential being; in this way, these philosophies "arouse the desire to bite but offer nothing to eat.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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And tremulous opal-hued anemones
Will wave their purple fringes where we tread
Upon the mirrored floor, and argosies
Of fishes flecked with tawny scales will thread
The drifting cordage of the
shattered
wreck,
And honey-coloured amber beads our twining limbs will deck.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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and youthful sin
Fall, with the
firstlings
of the manly chin!
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Satires |
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Why, I'm off
to K— to-morrow,” said
Raïchin
regretfully.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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They fear
those experiences, to which the kindly disposed
foreigner surrenders himself, when he lives among
the Germans, and must be surprised how little
German life
corresponds
to those great individuals,
works and actions, which, in his kind disposition he
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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He said : Why drag in Kao-tsung, in the old days
everyone
did.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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This is but listing off-hand the names of a few of the more important
classics
of the literature of fact, in what may be con sidered a single line of thought.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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It is said to have been founded by our
holy virgin,7 in the
beginning
of the sixth century.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Gustavus
laid his hopes and his
plans before him, and ended with these
words: "That which can or cannot be
done, God only knows.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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it was contrived to en- rich particular
individuals
at the public ex- pense" [71:35].
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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After with friendly cheer and equal glee
Had once or twice embraced the noble two,
To Oberto Roland told the treachery
Which had been done the
youthful
dame, and who
Had done it, -- false Bireno -- that among
All men should least have sought to do her wrong.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And he replied, 'To
convince
your opponent by showing him his mistakes in a well-ordered array of arguments.
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Y ou
and I , dear O swald, are too
accustomed
to fine girls for
any one of them to lead us into such an absurdity; but a
it is
German prince, now, or a S panish grandee -- who k nows?
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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At the same time, however, I continued my rhetorical
Exercises
under Demetrius the Syrian, an experienced and reputable master of the art of speaking.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Introduction
of nuclear weapons undoubtedly needs to be evaluated in these terms.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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) The
strongest
must be most tightly bound, most strictly
watched, laid in chains and supervised: this the instinct of the herd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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It had
Guinea, j^^ | je g UI1 by them in the East Indies; where
they had * planted themselves in great and strong
towns, and had many
harbours
well fortified, in
which they constantly maintained a great number
of good and strong ships ; by which they were ab-
solute masters of those seas, and forced the neigh-
bour kings and princes to enter into such terms of
amity with them as they thought fit to require.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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enn steppe3 he in-to stirop, & stryde3 alofte;
His schalk schewed hym his schelde, on
schulder
he hit la3t,
Gorde3 to Gryngolet, with his gilt hele3,
[E] & he starte3 on ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
It is
possible
that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
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III
The Knight sings:
O
princess
cease your dreams awhile
And look adown your tower's gray side--
The princess gazes far away,
Nor hears nor heeds the words I cried.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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One does not have to be able to win a local military
engagement
to make the threat of it effective.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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614
From this tall cliff, whose rough
impending
brow
Frowns o'er the cataract that foams below,
I view the plain, where ma.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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D'ailleurs l'idée du départ
d'Albertine voulu par elle-même eût pu me venir mille fois à
l'esprit, le plus clairement, le plus nettement du monde, que je
n'aurais pas soupçonné
davantage
ce que serait relativement à moi,
c'est-à-dire en réalité, ce départ, quelle chose originale, atroce,
inconnue, quel mal entièrement nouveau.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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He noted that
Atalanta
took the
boar's head back to Tegea and that it still was there in his own time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was bleaching the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my
footsteps
With water clear and brown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
scholastic
discussions upon the Mishnah had in
the sixth century been put into writing, and had become that vast
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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For this reason He hath said In the morning
destroyed
all
the ungodly that were in the land.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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We have it proved to us how great a love they entertained both for each other, and for the smitten man, in that they came by agreement to
administer
consolation to him when afflicted.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Entre tant de
beautés
que partout on peut voir,
Je comprends bien, amis, que le désir balance;
Mais on voit scintiller en Lola de Valence
Le charme inattendu d'un bijou rose et noir.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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If "my whole body is filled with nerves of
voluptuousness
from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, such as is the case only in the adult female body, whereas in the case of a man, so far as 1know, nerves of voluptuousness are only found in and immediately around the sexual organs,"'" then this body is "a woman.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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" For among the ancients, the "Hellenic way oflife" tended
rather to designate Greek culture and civilization, both in its spiritual and in its material rms:
literature
and philosophical discourses, to be sure, but also the gymnasia and social way ofli .
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Our
embarrassment
then appears extreme since we can neither reject nor com- prehend bad faith.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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From trellised balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a
splendour
voluminous.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Both variants are charac- terized by the
coercive
role of pain and destruction-ofthreat- ened (not inflicted) pain and destruction.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Su típica tonalidad es la de una aristocracia
desposeída
de poder, que salva su hambre de supe rioridad en el sueño del servicio puro.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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C’était ce mystère aussi qui me troublait quand, courant sur l’ordre
de la fillette à la voix brève pour commencer tout de suite notre
partie de barres, j’apercevais Gilberte, si vive et brusque avec nous,
faisant une révérence à la dame aux Débats (qui lui disait: «Quel beau
soleil, on dirait du feu»), lui parlant avec un sourire timide, d’un
air compassé qui
m’évoquait
la jeune fille différente que Gilberte
devait être chez ses parents, avec les amis de ses parents, en visite,
dans toute son autre existence qui m’échappait.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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who will lead me on
To seek the spots where, in far distant years,
The angels in their glory dawned upon
Thy
messengers
and seers ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Sometimes
I wonder if the linen is bleaching
white, or I go out to see if the crows are picking up the chickens'
food.
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Yeats |
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